MTN has announced a new Seamless Roaming Service that will allow MTN pre-paid customers travelling between four countries in the West African sub-region, namely Nigeria, Cameroun, Benin and Ghana, to make and receive calls “in a seamless, hassle-free manner”.
MTN roaming subscribers will be able to travel to any of the four countries with their regular [...]
“The world’s most popular mobile Web browser with over 20 million users”, Opera Mini is out with a beta version 4.2. This beta installs next to any existing stable Opera Mini version on your device and will not overwrite any of your data.
One of the new features (actually not so new) is the re-introduction of [...]
As far back as 2006, the BBC had reported that in July of that year, 61% of its international traffic from mobile devices (a whopping 13.2 million page views in one month alone) was from Nigeria. At that time, I presented that as evidence to convince those who maintained that Nigerians do not use their [...]
CDMA mobile network, Starcomms, sent round an SMS thanking its subscribers for making them “the First CDMA network in Nigeria to cross 2 Million happy subscribers”.
I am very sceptical of the “happy” part though. Personally, Starcomms has left a bad taste in my mouth with their mobile internet service. As a matter of fact, I [...]
Following in the heels of Sony Ericsson’s recent announcement that they would no longer be developing the UIQ platform, Motorola, the only other handset manufacturer producing UIQ devices, has also announced that it is abandoning the UIQ ship.
As it is, and unless a miracle happens, UIQ is officially dead. Yes; there are several handsets still [...]
Fifth GSM operator, Etisalat, has finally thrown open its doors. The 0809 network has launched with a number of basic services with a few touches of innovation.
Etisalat currently offers one prepaid package that delivers voice, SMS, MMS, and mobile internet. On the voice front, the network offers the “Homezone” feature, allowing subscribers to call at [...]
The following video seems authentic enough. But, who knows?
In this video, a 15-year old Norwegian demonstrates a programme he has written to make it possible to dual-boot his iPhone to run either of OSX or Windows Mobile. If this is for real, I wonder what Mr. Steve Jobs would have to say about it.
The Smirnoff Company has flagged off a test run of its new mobile website with a promo offering FREE airtime to mobile phone users. This promo is available only via the company’s mobile site, and will run for three (3) months.
To access the promo, please visit this site on your mobile phone (www.mobinaija.com) and click [...]
Weeks ago, MobilityNigeria.com reported that with Celtel Nigeria’s rebranding to Zain, the mobile operator stated that WAP over GPRS service was restricted to post-paid subscribers only. That statement is still on the Zain Nigeria website.
But the reality on ground is that for whatever reason, prepaid lines are still being activated for WAP over GPRS and [...]
Mobilefest Africa, a mobile phone festival announced here some weeks back, will now hold in November, not October as earlier scheduled.
New schedule
Date: November 3rd (Monday) - Nov 5th (Wednesday)
Venue: Oramiyan Hall, Lagos Airport Hotel - Ikeja
